WINDOW ROCK, Ariz.-Per reports from the Navajo Department of Health and the Navajo Area Indian Health Service, in coordination with the Navajo Epidemiology Center, the Navajo Nation has reached 174 positive tests for COVID-19 through Wednesday, including seven deaths. This includes six positive tests for tribal members residing in San […]
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — The sweeping bill that President Donald Trump signed will help better equip health care systems that serve Native Americans, improve the emergency response time on tribal lands, provide economic relief for tribal members, and help with food deliveries to low-income families and the elderly. Tribes have […]
PHOENIX (AP) — The number of coronavirus cases in Arizona has now risen to more than 500 with eight dead, health officials said Thursday. The Arizona Department of Health Services confirmed that 508 cases have now been reported. More than half are in Maricopa County. All but two eastern counties — Gila […]
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP)-Sharon Bahe has made her home on the Navajo Nation a refuge, placing cedar branches and burning sage to help purify the space and praying for protection for herself and her children home from boarding school and a toddler with severe asthma. Her community of about 500 in […]
WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP)-The Navajo Nation is now under a public health state of emergency declared by tribal President Jonathan Nez due to the growing spread of the coronavirus outbreak. Nev’s office said in a statement announcing the declaration Wednesday that there were no confirmed cases on the the tribé’s […]
WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP)-Officials from the Navajo Nation and the federal government are taking a closer look at more than a dozen former uranium mines on the reservation. The tribe and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reached an agreement years ago to assess sites where they haven’t found a mining […]
PINEDALE, N.M. (AP) — Authorities on the Navajo Nation are looking to the public for any information on a deadly hit-and-run on the New Mexico side of the reservation. A motorist found an injured, 71-year-old man sitting along BIA Route 11 in Pinedale, about 20 miles west of Crownpoint, on […]
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — As the coal industry nears its end on the Navajo Nation, the tribe is looking to Arizona utilities that shared in the power generated on the reservation to help make up for the financial losses and environmental impacts. Navajo leaders have requested nearly $62 million to establish a […]
CASPER, WYO. (AP) — A Navajo Nation company says it has an agreement to pay outstanding taxes and royalties on three large coal mines that it bought last year in Wyoming and Montana. The Navajo Transitional Energy Company said Tuesday that it made its first payment in December under an installment agreement with the […]
WINDOW ROCK, ARIZ. (AP) — The Navajo Nation has purchased 1250 acres (506 hectares) of land that includes a gravel pit that the tribe plans to use to obtain sand and gravel for road work and other projects. The Gallup Independent reported that gravel pit’s operator that leased its site from […]
